Shortlist announced for BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013

The shortlist for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013 has been announced this morning. The awards pay tribute to the cultural importance of audio drama, on air and online, and are intended to give recognition to the actors, writers, producers, sound designers and others who work in the genre.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony to be held on Sunday 27 January 2013 in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House in central London.

The BBC is delighted also to be joining forces for a second time with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors for this year’s Imison Award for best original radio drama by a writer new to radio, and the Tinniswood Award for best original radio drama.

In its inaugural year, the BBC Drama Awards 2012 - the first awards of its kind - received more than 150 entries from dramas created across the country and internationally. Winners included David Tennant for Best Actor, acclaimed writer Katie Hims for Best Audio Drama, Andrew Scott for Best Supporting Actor and writer Hugh Hughes for Best Scripted Comedy Drama. This year, more than 180 entries were received.

The BBC Audio Drama Awards shortlist for each category is:

Best Audio Drama (Single play)

(Judges: Jane Anderson, Fiona Shaw, Ben Stephenson, Vanessa Thorpe)

Betrayal by Harold Pinter, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland for Radio 4

On It by Tony Pitts, produced by Sally Harrison, Woolyback Productions for Radio 4

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery, produced by Melanie Harris, Sparklab Productions for Radio 4

Best Audio Drama (Series or Serial)

(Judges: Patricia Cumper, Will Gompertz, Lord Hall of Birkenhead)

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll, abridged by Helen Meller, produced by Polly Thomas, Somethin’ Else Productions for Radio 4

The Mumbai Chuzzlewits dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, produced by John Dryden, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4

Pink Mist by Owen Sheers, produced by Tim Dee, BBC Bristol for Radio 4

Best Actor in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Andrew Davies, Sarah Vine & Nina Wadia)

Henry Goodman in James Joyce’s Ulysses, dramatised by Robin Brooks, produced by Jeremy Mortimer, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

Richard Johnson in Tennyson and Edison by David Pownall, produced by Peter Kavanagh, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 3

Andrew Scott in Betrayal by Harold Pinter, produced by Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland Drama for Radio 4

Best Actress in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Baz Bamigboye, Nick Kent, Stephen Tompkinson)

Lorraine Ashbourne in Seven Scenes by Nicola Baldwin, produced by Celia De Wolff, Pier Productions for Radio 3

Michelle Fairley in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, dramatised by Donna Franceschild, produced by Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland for Radio 4

Fenella Woolgar in An American Rose by Charlotte Jones, produced by Claire Grove, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

Best Supporting Actor in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Matt Hemley, Razia Iqbal, Imogen Stubbs)

David Crellin in Craven by Amelia Bullmore, produced by Justine Potter, Red Productions for Radio 4

Carl Prekopp in Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, produced by Marc Beeby, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

David Troughton in Singles and Doublets by Martyn Wade, produced by Cherry Cookson, Rocket House Productions for Radio 3

Best Supporting Actress in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Daniel Evans, Louise Jury, Julie Myerson]

Niamh Cusack in The Man with Wings by Rachel Joyce, produced by Gordon House, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4

Gillian Kearney in Songs and Lamentations by Michael Symmons Roberts, produced by Susan Roberts, BBC North for Radio 4

Vicky McClure in Kicking the Air by Christine Murphy, produced by Heather Larmour, BBC Northern Ireland for Radio 4

Best Adaptation from Another Source

(Judges: Sebastian Born, Alan Brodie, Susannah Clapp)

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, dramatised by Tanika Gupta, produced by Nadia Molinari, BBC North for Radio 3

The Mumbai Chuzzlewits by Charles Dickens, dramatised by Ayeesha Menon, produced by John Dryden, Goldhawk Essential Productions for Radio 4

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance written by Robert M. Pirsig, dramatised by Peter Flannery, produced by Melanie Harris, Sparklab Productions for Radio 4

Best Use of Sound in an Audio Drama

(Judges: Kevin Brew, John Hardy, Jane Thynne)

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, dramatised by Jane Rogers, produced by Nadia Molinari, BBC North for Radio 4

The Cruel Sea, written by Nicholas Monsarrat, dramatised by John Fletcher, produced by Marc Beeby, BBC Audio Drama for Radio 4

Use it or Lose It by Peter Blegvad, produced by Iain Chambers, Falling Tree for Radio 3